And if you believe that Discord, or whatever heinous third-party firm they're working with, is deleting the scan of your government ID, then I have a bridge to sell you.

@pip True - from their corpo-spew:

"Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation."

'In most cases' and 'deleted quickly' are going to be doing a lot of heavy lifting here...

Also, didn't they have a breach of user data recently? 🤔

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed 70,000 Discord users’ ID photos

Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken

The Guardian